Posted 05-16-2004 at 22:18:31
[Reply] [No Email]This news was just announced on another forum.

In Response To: Eugene Mallove Killed in Property Dispute

Norwich police seek information on murder victim's vehicle

(Norwich-WTNH, May 16, 2004 5:10 PM) _ Norwich police have released the identity of a man found murdered Friday night.

He's 56-year-old Eugene Mallove of New Hampshire.

He is a former MIT science writer and author once nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

On Friday night police found the man beaten to death at a house on Salem Turnpike.

Several items were stolen from the man including his car.

His 1993 Dodge Caravan was found several hours after the attack, abandoned at an employee parking lot at Foxwoods Casino.

Police are urging anyone who may have seen this car any time over the weekend to contact them. They are trying to determine who was in the vehicle. It has a New Hampshire license plate and a web logo on the back window.

NORWICH, Conn. -- Police are investigating the killing of a science writer who championed cold fusion.

Eugene Mallove, 56, of Pembroke, N.H., died late Friday night after being assaulted at a Norwich house owned by his parents, police said. The family rented out the house.

Mallove died of injuries to his head and neck, the Norwich Bulletin reported Sunday. The office of the chief state's medical examiner ruled the death a homicide.

Mallove was discovered at the house after police received a report of an injured person. An initial investigation indicated a robbery and a fight had taken place, police said. Several unidentified items were taken and Mallove's minivan was missing.

His 1993 green Dodge Caravan was found early Saturday in an employee parking lot at the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket. Police were looking for anyone who saw the minivan after 7 p.m. Friday. It had several large bumper stickers on the back, including one advertising his magazine's Web site: www.infinite-energy.com.

Mallove, who moved from Norwich to Bow, N.H., in 1987 and to Pembroke three years ago, was president of the Concord, N.H.-based New Energy Institute and editor-in-chief of its magazine, "Infinite Energy."

The magazine's managing editor, who worked with him for six years, called Mallove the "most caring and giving person I probably have ever known _ a very successful, brilliant man."

"It's hard not to love the things he loves because he's so passionate," Christy Frazier said. "He touched the lives of everybody he came in contact with."

Mallove, who earned his bachelor's and master's degrees at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. from Harvard University, was chief science writer at the MIT news office until he left to champion cold fusion. He also taught science writing at MIT and Boston University.

He was the author of several books, including one on cold fusion that was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize: "Fire and Ice: Searching for the Truth Behind the Cold Fusion Furor."

Mallove believed the infamous Pons and Fleishmann announcement in 1989 that they created nuclear fusion by running an electrical current through a jar of water was not "voodoo science," but a glimpse into an interesting topic worth investigating.

That belief was partly vindicated earlier this year when the U.S. Department of Energy ordered a panel of scientists to review existing research on cold fusion to see whether it is worth pursuing.

"They are now going to do the right thing. It's over 10 years late, no doubt about that, (and) should have been reviewed a long time ago ... but this is a breakthrough," Mallove said in a recent interview with The Telegraph of Nashua, N.H.

"There is a huge body of positive evidence" for low-energy nuclear reactions, he said. "We have measured tritium (a byproduct of fusion), measured heat multiple ways.... There are thousands of papers, hundreds of which are bulletproof."

Mallove's parents, Mitchel and Gladys Mallove, followed him to New Hampshire in 1988. His father died last year after a long illness, but he was still caring for his mother, who has Alzheimer's disease, Frazier said.

He also was survived by his wife, Joanne; a daughter, Kimberlyn; a son, Ethan; and one grandson. -----Information from: Norwich Bulletin

Clipper

Posted 05-17-2004 at 04:42:51
[Reply] [No Email]That is Norwich,Connecticut where he was killed. Only bout 8 miles from me here.

Les

Posted 05-17-2004 at 02:58:00
[Reply] [No Email]Is that Norwich, CT or Norwich, VT? I know Pembroke but can't say that I know anyone from there. And I never heard of any Salem Turnpike. Suppose it will be in today's paper?

ron,ar

Posted 05-16-2004 at 22:22:12
[Reply] [No Email]Les is the only one I know of on this board from New Hampshire.

Aprille

Posted 05-17-2004 at 10:21:57
[Reply] [No Email]I am also from NH..have heard not too much re:this case..Maybe the Salen Turnpike is the one leading into Methuen?

Clipper.....Nope!

Posted 05-17-2004 at 10:52:13
[Reply] [No Email]Salem Turnpike they are referring to is here in Norwich Connecticut.....and the cops have a few HOT leads on who killed the guy....they expect an arrest shortly....which tells me they are waiting on a arrest warrant for the perp.